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Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner

A Healthy Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner

Thanksgiving Turkey Flavor/Health Trade Off
For many people the problem with turkey for Thanksgiving dinner is that it lacks flavor which explains why some people look for a tastier but not necessarily healthier ways of cooking it. There is always a flavor/health trade off with everything we eat so these tips may help.

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Easy And Healthy Breakfasts Using Eggs

As the most important meal of the day, it is important that we get out breakfasts right. Whilst there are a great many options available to us these days, eggs still remain a great way to start the day. Occasionally though, it can be a little tricky to mix things up, here are a few ideas.

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How To Add a Tasty Side Dish To Your BBQ Pork Recipe

Consider this Idea With Your BBQ Pork Recipe.

How about considering another idea of preparing a side dish. A side dish of a baked potato to go with our bbq pork recipe or whatever we are cooking. And baked potatoes go with about whatever we cook out on a grill right?

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Stainless Steel Turkey Fryers

As November approaches turkeys began to become part of many conversations and grandmothers, mothers, stay at home dads and professional chefs will began to decide just how they will prepare turkeys for the next few months. Oven baking has for years been the method of choice. But times they are a changing. The turkey of course has long been a Thanksgiving and Christmas day dish but now with the development of turkey fryers, this bird is apt to find itself in hot water, er, hot oil year round.

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Glass Beakers in the Kitchen?

How many times have you been in the kitchen and run out of measuring cups to store your precisely prepared ingredients? We have. Glassware made specifically for kitchen use can be prohibitively expensive and many home chefs will settle for boring bowls and cups. Ever consider labware for your kitchen? Watch a couple episodes of Alton Brown’s hit Food Network show, “Good Eats,” and the rest is history. The fact is lab equipment isn’t entirely foreign to being used in the kitchen. Every wonder where the idea for the immersion blender came from?

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Making Homemade Frozen Dinners

One thing I have done over the years to save time and money is establish a day every week or so to make homemade frozen dinners. This is also a wonderful way to keep you and your family away from eating unhealthy processed foods. I know it’s easy to buy an inexpensive frozen dinner but it’s much healthier, tastier, and cheaper to make your own homemade frozen dinners!

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Choosing The Best Type Of Candy Molds for Your Homemade Candies

Appearance and Presentation of homemade candy also does make a difference. This is the primary reason why it would be an excellent idea to invest in candy molds. Decorative molds are absolutely essential for different small candies and treats, and these can also be utilized when making a special batch of chocolate with the kids.

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Why Purchase Stainless Steel Grills

As soon as you decide that you’re more then merely your regular outdoor cooking grill chef you may want to consider investing in one of the extremely popular gas powered stainless steel grills. Gas grills offer an array of features and options that other varieties of grills just do not have. If you’re looking for an outdoor cooking grill that will be beautiful, unfailing, and will survive for many years to come, you may want to consider looking into stainless steel gas grills. In this article we are going to take a look at a number of the reasons why stainless steel grills have become so widespread.

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Choosing The Best Type Of Candy Molds for Your Homemade Candies

Appearance and Presentation of homemade candy also does make a difference. This is the primary reason why it would be an excellent idea to invest in candy molds. Decorative molds are absolutely essential for different small candies and treats, and these can also be utilized when making a special batch of chocolate with the kids.

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The Advantage of Using Automatic Rice Cookers

More and more people are trying to include healthy grains like brown and wild rice into their diet. There is a diet plan based on rice that has been called safe, fast and effective and is in part, based on a diet that is used by an in-house facility that has had great successes over many years. Of course, not everyone has the time or the money to check into this particular facility, so it is easier to recreate the diet plan in your own home. Instead of trying to cook the rice that you will need with other methods, automatic rice cookers are a better and easier tool to turn to.

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Cook Delicious Meals in Your Microwave

If you’re like a lot of people, you only use your microwave for reheating and defrosting food, or for popping popcorn. You may have never even considered using this common kitchen appliance for cooking an entire meal, because for many years a lot of microwave meals didn’t taste very good. But this type of cooking has come a long way, and these days there are all kinds of delicious recipes that can be made in half the time it would take to cook them in a conventional oven or on the stove top.

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How Is Truffle Oil Made?

The mysteries in the food realm is truffles. The Italian white oil is just about the finest cooking oil across the world made up of the essence of truffles from the finest quality. The truffle oil salad dressings assists boost the delicate flavors with inclusion of just a few drops. The light truffle oil is added to risotto, pasta and even fish dishes proper with the dinner table. This mainly because the aroma in the truffle can attain and play its games on the guest.

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Do Not Laugh At That Portable Smoker

Are you one of those people who grew up believing that the only good BBQ comes from an age-old hand-built pit? Have you been slow smoking meat over the same bricks since the Truman administration? Maybe you are one of those guys who have become a little too attached to his double-barreled smoker or a would-be pitmaster who thinks the only good “Q” comes from competition teams. Regardless of your BBQing background, there is one mistake you should not make: Do not discount the quality of BBQ one can make in a portable smoker.

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Gourmet Cheese and Beer

Munich’s Oktoberfest is the world’s largest fair with close to 6 million people attending over a 16 day period. When you think of Oktoberfest, naturally, you think of beer. And you should since Oktoberfest doesn’t officially commence until the Mayor taps the first keg and declares “O’zapft is” – “it’s tapped”. While Oktoberfest ended this week in Munich, we are celebrating the German cultural festival all month long by enjoying our gourmet cheese with a stein of beer (Lederhosen optional).

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Sticky Fingers Bakeries English Scones Mixes

While relatively new to the marketplace, Sticky Fingers Bakeries English Scones Mixes can trace their heritage back hundreds of years and across two continents. Birthed on the rough hearths of Scotland and refined at high teas in England, scones are a culinary intermarriage of biscuits and griddle cakes. They have been variously described as a heavy sweet bread, a lightly salted cake, or a great big flakey cookie, depending on the added ingredients and the preferences of the baker.

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Kitchen Tools For Home Usage

Our homes are made from different parts and each part functions to support the other. If you are wondering in which part the family spends time together to prepare something to eat, it’s in the kitchen. However, how can one prepare delicious food for everybody without the use of kitchen tools? Will you think it is easy and very possible to prepare food without nothing to use for even knives to cut something? It will be hard. Thus, if you want to know what necessary tools you should have for cooking, you are on the right page.

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Best Value For Indoor Grilling

The best value for indoor grilling has always been a Big George Foreman Grill. Value and price should be synonymous. People everywhere are looking for great prices as well as value. That is why I wrote this article.

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Choosing the Best Slow Cooker! Tips to Consider

In recent years the slow cookers have made a real come-back. You can enjoy healthy home-cooked meals using slow cooker cooking even if you have a very busy schedule. Imagine coming home tired at the end of a day and within minutes sit down to a delicious hot healthy meal.

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Microwaves Ovens Hazardous to Your Health

Microwaves have become a part of everyone’s kitchen as they have been around for years and offer a fast way to heat or cook food quickly. Microwave ovens can be found in more than 90% of homes in the United States. My friends and family think I’m crazy because I’m part of the 10% that do not have a microwave.

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Olive Oil – Italy’s Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Export

Deep in the heel of the boot of Italy, lays a picturesque little town with miles of olive groves that stretch straight to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Ruvo di Puglia is the heart and soul of some of the most antique and noble olive groves in all of Italy. For extra virgin olive oil of the highest quality, few beat this variety for its flavor and finish.

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